According to Brazilian SporTV News, the president of the Brazilian Motorcycle Confederation (CMB), Firmo Alves, has said that the MotoGP World Championship will be returning to the country from 2014.
The comment was made during at a Honda presentation in Sao Paulo (click here for the video, and he mentions it at the 2.
50 minute mark) stating that the country will host a round, however the venue has not been confirmed.
The last MotoGP race to be held in the South American country was in 2004 (and won by Makoto Tamada, who was riding for the now defunct Camel Honda team run by Sito Pons, and he gave Bridgestone their first ever win in MotoGP) at the Autodromo Internacional Nelson Piquet at Jacarepagua, which has now been demolished to make way for the Olympic Park for the 2016 Games.
The Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo is FIA homologated, but the last time it hosted a GP race was in 1992, and the only Brazilian currently racing in GP is 16-year old Eric Granado who races for Mapfre Aspar’s Moto3 team.
